HOW do we replace a man like Nick Harvey? Simply, we can’t, because there was no one like Nick Harvey. No one person can do what Nick did with anywhere near the same level of knowledge or breadth of experience, but a handful of individuals can each t

I STEPPED slowly through the grass and down into the creek. There was no water running but the soil smelled dank and wild. I stalked down into the bed of the watercourse, taking note of the odd split wedge tracks of fallow deer between rabbit digging

A few years before first coming on board at Sporting Shooter, I acquired my first .270 rifle by chance. A friend asked if I would like a Graham Spraggon-built custom Mauser that was made to take to New Zealand after tahr. The owner never got to use i

FROM THE safari seat atop a Land Cruiser dual cab ute, our first morning in South Africa was surreal. Hornbills cawarked in the trees. Impala snorted and leapt at our passing. Blue wildebeest, the scatterbrains of the African veld, ran ahead of us, g

IN THE times we live in it seems so easy to get information on anything we need by simply entering it into a search engine or jumping on a Facebook group and asking a question. As a hunter, information has never been so available to do your research.

TO most shooters, ‘Green’ is a dirty word — an organisation that hates shooting and seems hell-bent on ensuring no-one can actually experience Australia’s natural wilderness areas for themselves. What they fail to appreciate is that as shooters, we a

GOOD boots are a must. Comfort, support, durability and construction are important considerations, and the boot you choose needs to suit the type of terrain you hunt. Outer shell construction, sole design and rigidity are of utmost importance. Ridgel

THE Outback combines two of Australia’s most prominent home-grown shooting products: the Lithgow Arms LA102 centrefire action and the Southern Cross Small Arms TSP X aluminium chassis, creating a rifle that’s as rugged and long-wearing as the remote

BUSHPIG is an inspired name for a repeating shotgun, especially one as black and beautifully ugly as this is. I never got tired of announcing I was “taking the Bushpig for a walk”. I could have been hunting goats, foxes, rabbits or even deer, but wha

IT’S ONLY been the past few years that I’ve had the opportunity to hunt some deer. The top of that list for me was a sambar stag, a big-bodied, shy animal with a potential for the elusive 30-inch trophy. Every time I see one in the bush, I can’t help

REYNARD, the fox, figures prominently in the legends and folklore of Europe and is especially lauded for its cunning in Aesop’s Fables. The fox (Vulpes vulpes) belongs to the family of wild dogs in which wolves, coyotes, jackals, hyenas and all domes

Do All Outdoors has just released the Flyway 180, which has the largest target capacity to date. Holding a whopping 180 clays, this turret-style thrower will ensure the fun continues longer than ever before. It features a two-wheeled cart for easy tr

THE word ‘trophy’ is thrown around a lot these days, and not just in hunting circles. Anti-hunters like to use the term to imply hunters are doing something wrong by pursuing trophies. For me, when you analyse the idea of a trophy, it comes down to a

Q After 50 years of shooting with .22 Hornets, .270s, .303s, 7mm and 8mm magnums, .300 Weatherby, .300 Win Mag .30-30, .45-70 and two .308s, I am down to a single rifle — a Ruger Varmint in .25-06 — and a five-shot Adler shotgun. Your article, “Handl

WHEN Marcus O’Dean handed over the editorship of Sporting Shooter to me, he joked about his relief that Nick Harvey hadn’t died on his watch. Losing someone of Nick’s irreplaceable standing is an editor’s nightmare. I dreaded it. Even the publisher q

LONG before the days of internet, when information was not as accessible, we relied on magazines and books to collect data and research things like hunting, guns and ammunition. This is where it all started for me, like many others. We will remember

I didn’t grow up reading Nick Harvey’s words like many people in our community. It wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I started hunting and shooting regularly and started consuming literature in this space in order to learn more and be entertain

Nick Harvey passed away on 21 February 2024. He left us with scores of answers to readers’ questions that we have not yet published. To honour his memory, we will continue his column until we have run them all. Q I’ve been using a Remington Model 700

I started my shooting life in the mid-1970s as a full bore shooter in a local rifle club and at school. I did very well as a junior shooter, partly because I used to buy Sporting Shooter at every opportunity and, disregarding the hunting articles, we

WEEKS AFTER going to Finland, Nick was in the US, the first Australian ever invited to both the Winchester and Remington gun-writers’ seminars, an honour partly attributed to Winchester’s recent $1 million investment in its Geelong plant and partly t